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For Faculty

Professor David Kirsch, 2014 mentoring award recipient.

Mentoring is an essential component of graduate student success. Here is a starting point for understanding the mentoring resources available on campus that provide supportive and appropriate mentoring for your graduate students. Also be sure to check out our list of on-campus and online resources about mentoring.

Foster relationships between students and other mentors at Duke and beyond

Connect students with service and professional development opportunities

Encourage students to be creative and to take chances

Have open conversations about the challenges of graduate school and how institutions work

Help students develop short and long term career goals

Maintain open lines of communication

Model professional responsibility

Offer honest, constructive feedback

Diversity

The Graduate School is dedicated to building and maintaining a student population diverse in background, culture, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and work and life experiences. In some cases, such diversity can create barriers that may make faculty members feel unprepared to handle their students from different cultural backgrounds.

Here are some strategies to help faculty members stay in tune with the needs of students:

Be honest about your students’ work, both in and outside the classroom